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Staff+ Software Engineer, Payment Fraud

AnthropicSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WASafeguards (Trust & Safety)
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Job type
Full-time
Posted
10 Jul 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

The Staff+ Software Engineer, Payment Fraud position at Anthropic is a full-time role based in San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, or Seattle, WA, offering professionals a chance to safeguard payment and monetization frameworks against financial threats. This opportunity suits experienced engineers who excel at outsmarting attackers while maintaining a frictionless journey for legitimate users.

Role Overview

In this role, the engineer joins the Fraud Prevention team to protect revenue surfaces across subscriptions, trials, promotions, and in-app purchases. The position involves designing real-time risk decision systems that evaluate transactions during authorization. Team members balance the prevention of fraud losses with the preservation of high approval rates and minimal latency.

Key Responsibilities

Design and construct real-time risk decisioning systems that score transactions during authorization while respecting strict latency limits.
Build automation tools and review queues to manage the dispute and chargeback lifecycle, including loss reporting and evidence gathering.
Engineer large-scale fraud signals such as device fingerprinting, velocity features, cross-account linkages, and issuer data.
Own key performance indicators including loss rates, dispute ratios, and false-positive impacts.
Lead investigations into evolving fraud techniques to establish multi-layered defenses.
Partner cross-functional with finance, legal, support, and data science groups alongside external platform partners.

Requirements

Bring eight or more years of industry software engineering experience with a specific focus on risk or payments fraud.
Demonstrate proficiency in Python, SQL, and data analysis software.
Exhibit fluency with payment rails such as card networks, payment service providers, and in-app purchase ecosystems.
Possess a deep understanding of fraud typologies, loss accounting, and card network monitoring programs.
Hold a Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience in a relevant field.

Nice to Have

Experience building hybrid rules-and-ML risk frameworks that combine real-time authorization scoring with post-authorization workflows.
Background working within a subscription business, marketplace, or dedicated risk team.

Skills and Tools

Python
SQL
Data analysis utilities
Device fingerprinting and velocity features
Payment rails and service providers like Stripe or Adyen

Salary and Benefits

The annual salary range for this position is $320,000 to $485,000 USD. Anthropic provides competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous parental leave, flexible working hours, and ample vacation time.

About the Company

Anthropic focuses on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable artificial intelligence systems that benefit society. Operating as a public benefit corporation, the organization brings together researchers, policy specialists, and engineers to pursue large-scale empirical AI research in a collaborative environment.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should visit the official Anthropic careers page to submit an application for this position.

Skills and tech stack

PythonSQL

Questions candidates ask

What locations is this job available in?

This role can be based out of San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, or Seattle, WA, with a location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time.

What is the salary range for the Staff+ Software Engineer, Payment Fraud role?

The annual base salary ranges from $320,000 to $485,000 USD.

How many years of experience are required?

The position requires 8+ years of industry software engineering experience with a focus on risk or payments fraud.

Does Anthropic offer visa sponsorship for this position?

Yes, Anthropic provides visa sponsorship and retains an immigration lawyer to assist candidates who receive an offer.

What programming languages are required?

Proficiency in Python and SQL is required for this role.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Anthropic careers page.

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